On this day in movie history - Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

directed and written by Michael Cimino,

was released in the United States on May 24, 1974.

Music by Dee Barton.

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Busey, Jack Dodson, Eugene Elman, Burton Gilliam, Roy Jenson, Claudia Lennear, Bill McKinney, Vic Tayback, Dub Taylor, Gregory Walcott, Erica Hagen, Alvin Childress, Virginia Baker, Stuart Nisbet, Irene K. Cooper, Cliff Emmich, June Fairchild, Ted Foulkes, Leslie Oliver, Mark Montgomery, Karen Lamm, Luanne Roberts, Lila Teigh, George Kennedy, David Chow, Beth Howland, Steve Moriarty.

Born on this day – Joan Micklin Silver:

 

Director

May 24, 1935 – December 31, 2020

Credits:

50 Years of Action! (1986); A Fish in the Bathtub (1998); A Private Matter (1992); Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976); Between the Lines (1977); Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1991); Calling the Shots (1988); Charms for the Easy Life (2002); Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979); Crossing Delancey (1988); Elie Wiesel Goes Home (1996); Faerie Tale Theatre (1983); Finnegan Begin Again (1985); Hester Street (1975); How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days (1984); Hunger Point (2003); In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997); Invisible Child (1999); Joan Micklin Silver - Begegnung mit der New Yorker Filmregisseurin (1983); Limbo (1972); Loverboy (1989); On the Yard (1978); Prison Stories: Women on the Inside / Parole Board (1991); Sisters (1995); TCM Remembers 2021 (2021); The Case of the Elevator Duck (1974); The Frontier Experience (1975); The Fur Coat Club (1973); The Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey (1972); The Oscars (2021); Working in the Theatre (1984).

Born on this day – Lilli Palmer:

Actress

Writer

May 24, 1914 – January 27, 1986

Credits:

The Other Side of the Wind (2018); Peter the Great (1986); The Holcroft Covenant (1985); The Love Boat (1984); Eine etwas sonderbare Dame (1982); Imaginary Friends (1982); Feine Gesellschaft - beschränkte Haftung (1982); Kinder (1981); Elvira's Movie Macabre (1981); Sarah in America (1981); Weekend (1980); Kaninchen im Hut und andere Geschichten mit Martin Held (1980); Eine Frau bleibt eine Frau (1972–1979); The Boys from Brazil (1978); Lotte in Weimar (1975); Derrick (1974); The Zoo Gang (1974); What the Peeper Saw (1972); Der Kommissar (1971); Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971); Hauser's Memory (1970); Only the Cool (1970); The House That Screamed (1969); De Sade (1969); Hard Contract (1969); The High Commissioner (1968); Oedipus the King (1968); Sebastian (1968); The Diary of Anne Frank (1967); Jack of Diamonds (1967); Paarungen (1967); Le voyage du père (1966); Der Kongreß amüsiert sich (1966); An Affair of States (1966); Le tonnerre de Dieu (1965); The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965); Operation Crossbow (1965); Le grain de sable (1964); Das große Liebesspiel (1963); Torpedo Bay (1963); Miracle of the White Stallions (1963); L'amore difficile (1962); Adorable Julia (1962); Le rendez-vous de minuit (1962); The Counterfeit Traitor (1962); Finden sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält? (1962); Dark Journey (1961); Frau Cheneys Ende (1961); The Pleasure of His Company (1961); Conspiracy of Hearts (1960); Frau Warrens Gewerbe (1960); But Not for Me (1959); Life as a Couple (1958); Mädchen in Uniform (1958); Montparnasse 19 (1958); Eine Frau, die weiss, was sie will (1958); The Glass Tower (1957); Tempestuous Love (1957); Between Time and Eternity (1956); Anastasia: The Czar's Last Daughter (1956); The Taming of the Shrew (1956); Teufel in Seide (1956); Fireworks (1954); Four Star Playhouse (1954); Kraft Theatre (1953); Main Street to Broadway (1953); Omnibus (1952); Lux Video Theatre (1952); The Four Poster (1952); The Lilli Palmer Show (1951); The Long Dark Hall (1951); Kraft Theatre (1950); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); Suspense (1949); Wicked City (1949); No Minor Vices (1948); My Girl Tisa (1948); Body and Soul (1947); Cloak and Dagger (1946); Beware of Pity (1946); Notorious Gentleman (1945); Her Man Gilbey (1944); The Gentle Sex (1943); Thunder Rock (1942); Chamber of Horrors (1940); Blind Folly (1939); One Night, One Day... (1939); Take Two Eggs (1939); A Girl Must Live (1939); Little Ladyship (1939); Suicide Legion (1939); The Man with 100 Faces (1938); Bath H. & C. (1938); S-s-s-h! The Wife! (1938); Starlight (1938); Moving Furniture (1938); Round the Film Studios (1937); Command Performance (1937); Silent Barriers (1937); Good Morning, Boys! (1937); Where There's a Will (1936); Secret Agent (1936); The First Offence (1936); Wolf's Clothing (1936); Crime Unlimited (1935); Rivaux de la piste (1933).

Recommended reading: Eaters of the Dead, by Michael Crichton (1976):

Eaters of the Dead

by Michael Crichton (1976):

Full title:

Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in AD 922,

a.k.a. The 13th Warrior.

 

Description:

The year is A.D. 922.  A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs — the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness . . . their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: He has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues them — a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh . . .

Marcus Tullius Cicero, on books:

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero.